I got word this morning that my dog died sometime overnight, following his emergency surgery. It's never easy to lose a pet, but I find it's especially difficult when they're young and you were expecting to spend many more good years with them…

Grieving via bagpipes this time.

There's a note that sounds like it's getting abruptly chopped off somewhere in the song. Hopefully, you won't hear it, because I couldn't figure out what was causing it.

So I still hate Ableton Live with a passion for anything piano related. But things seem to go better if I head straight to arrangement view once I'm out of the improvising stage and do my recording there, rather than trying to think that session…

I'm convinced that composing/recording daily is the best way to really find out if a DAW fits your workflow. And I think Ableton Live nailed its final nail in the coffin for me tonight. See, if I weren't writing so much, so quickly, I would be…

More Ace of Base, less Enya.

I think it's too repetitive. The bass is too harsh. The beats are stale. Don't agree with me though. :)

I am not BT, so no rain drops were quantized in this production. Storm was recorded last night on my Tascam DR-07 (with wind filter and limiter). Just a simple piano improv. That of course had to be tweaked far out of the improv stage.

It's generally not a good idea to try to write a vocal song and record it in the same night. Especially if you didn't warm up. Nor is it a good idea to layer 2 pitchy vocals trying to get a stable note. I do it wrong, what can I say? Lyrics…

So I bought Logic 9 today as my birthday gift. I suppose I underestimated the transition pains. For instance, I seem to be unable to hear the click track in Logic. As opposed to how grating and over the top Live's click track seems by comparison…